Radical left movement. And back to campus in the pandemic. It is pretty nerve wracking. It does concern me. I try to take all the precautions i can. And welcome to inside politics. Im john king. To the viewers in the United States and around the world, thank you so much for sharing your sunday. The present convention will dominate the week ahead. President trumps big stage to make his case for four more years. One big goal for the president is to counter what we heard repeatedly from the Democratic Convention this past week, that President Trump is selfish, inept, untrustworthy. Today this sunday, the democrats have a powerful new character witness. The president s own sister, who is a respected federal judge. The tweets and the lying, oh, my god im talking too freely, but you know the change of stories, the lack of preparation, the lying, the holy [ bleep ]. Judge Maryanne Trump Barry secretly recorded by her niece who recently published a scathing account of her uncle the president. Team trump at the time the book came out dismissed it as lies. Donalds out for donald, period. When he said he started to Say Something to me, look at what ive done for you, and i said, you have done nothing, deliberately. I have never asked him for a favor since 1981 when i was being highly considered to go on the federal court on my own merit. These tapes were first reported by the Washington Post which also included this in its account. It is the phoniness of it all, it is the phoniness and the cruelty, donald is cruel. Bad that fr that from the president s own sister, a judge, calling him untrustworthy, a liar and a fraud, she says arranged for someone else to take his College Entrance exam. And the tapes now a reminder 2016s disruptive outsider is 2020s beleaguered incumbent, in the middle of a pandemic voters believe he handled miserably. Seven in ten americans are embarrassed by the coronavirus response. 62 believe the president could be doing more to help. 79 of americans are angry about the way things are going in the country right now. With us to share the reporting and their insights, caitlin collins, tolu olorunnipa. The president putting out a Statement Last night that doesnt really address anything his sister says and the shocking tapes. It says every day it is Something Else who cares, i miss my brother and ill continue to work hard for the American People, not everyone agrees, but the results are obvious, our country will soon be stronger than ever before. It does not address the substance of what his sister, highly respected federal judge says, which essentially is that her brother is cruel and mean and not trustworthy. Which is not how the president and his aides wanted to kick off this Republican Convention week, this convention that was meant to prove joe biden wrong, contrasted with what democrats were saying about the president last week, which is really an indictment of his character every single day. You saw in the major speeches, they were going after the president , not only saying he was unable to do the job, but also talking about his character, talking about decency a lot and now they got this tape on their laps that comes out where it is his own sister saying these things, unknowingly, apparently, because they were secretly recorded by her niece, saying things like donald is cruel, going after his immigration policies, saying that there was an illegal substance behind the immigration policies and thats not how they wanted to begin this week, they wanted to show he is president ial, he does deserve to be reelected and now they have his sister on tape saying some things that you do not want said about you publicly ever, probably, but also if you are trying to convince the nation that you are able to take this job to continue it for four more years. Tolu, the question becomes can they kin to continue to ign. It will be on television today and tomorrow as the president continues to open his convention. This is his sister, a highly respected federal judge, following his niece, the president said was making this up for some personal reason, but also tracks what we heard from his former chief of staff, john kelly, his former defense secretary jim mattis, both of them retired generals with great credibility, his former secretary of state, former Communications Director, omarosa who worked in the white house a little bit, it tracks from what we heard from other people close to this president , but this is his own sister. Yeah, and they are going to try to dismiss it, the president will try to stage this reality tv Style Convention next week and hell have a lot of members of his own family speaking on his behalf. There is nothing quite as revealing as when your older sister, someone who essentially has known you since you were born says and comments that were not scripted, speaking from the heart, you are cruel, you are unprincipled, you are a liar, youre a fraud, you care only about yourself, this is the exact image the democrats put out about President Trump during their convention in which they showed sort of his character in comparison to joe bidens character, which they said, you know, showed decency and empathy, things that President Trump lacked. It will be very difficult for President Trump and his family to try to dismiss this, and try to paper over it and say that this is just maybe a disgruntled family member. This is a family member. One of the president s closest siblings, someone known him since he was born and who can speak to his character, not only from when he was younger, but also throughout his life. It will be difficult for President Trump to put forward an image of, you know, being a family man or someone empathetic or cares about Everyday Americans when this very revealing tape from his sister says the exact opposite. We did get a bit of a preview on friday from the president. His aides say well see and hear from him every night of the convention. Here is a bit of a preview. If our opponents prevail, no one will be safe in our country, and no one will be spared. Im the only thing standing between the American Dream and total anarchy, madness and chaos. And thats what it is. Kaitlan, the president has said in the past, maybe you dont like me, but judge me on my performance. That test is even higher now that you have this scathing account, these words played over and over again from his own sister. His performance is an issue because of the coronavirus pandemic and youre part of the reporting on this on cnn. Com, though the coronavirus pandemic will provide an unspoken subtext for the drastic a little altered convention, trump advisers said they did not expect the Health Crisis to be a heavy focus of the proceedings as it was during the democrats or has been during democrats. How can that be . The president thinks he can push aside the biggest threat to the country now . It is something that hes done at the white house. There were several periods during the pandemic where the president did not address it, days at a time, weeks at a time. It is not expected to be a main focus during this. You saw what democrats did, they talked about covid19 and joe biden spoke about what he would do if he was elected, but also most of their response on it was criticizing the president s response. And hitting him for that. They know it is something that voters are not with the president on. You saw the polls you were reading in the top of the hour, 62 of people think the president should be doing more on covid1covid19. The president will speak about it hes the head of the task force, hell talk about it on wednesday. It is not clear how much hell address it, what hell say about it, likely things we already heard the Vice President say in recent weeks, defending their response. But it is not expected to be a main topic for President Trump. So thats really what it all comes down to. They have made this argument that you may not like what the president says, you may not like what he tweets and how he acts, but at least you can point to the economy and point to the fact that while hes been in office he hasnt started any major wars. Those are the kind of topics they used, but, of course, what Americans Care about and what is showing up in these polls that were looking at about what voters are looking for when theyre going to elect a president in november, covid19 is obviously a major topic. It is hard to see how they do avoid it, it is not in the background this week during this convention. Kaitlan collins, appreciate the reporting and the insights, fascinating week ahead for the president and the Republican Convention, now that the words scathing words of the sister will echo throughout the week. Thank you for getting up early on this sunday. The pandemic seven months in, new infections are trending down. But estimates of the death toll keep climbing. How about no no uh uh, no way come on, no no nnnnono only discover has no annual fee on any card. Dont settle for less. Revitalift triple power with proretinol plus hyaluronic acid and vitamin c. It visibly reduces wrinkles. Firms. And brightens. 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They need us and we need you. Home instead. Apply today. The white house is promising a major breakthrough in the coronavirus fight. The president will announce progress on a treatment for covid patients. That will come later today. We do not have any details yet. It is seven months now since the cdc reported the first confirmed case of coronavirus here in the United States. Back on that late january day, the cdc said the risk to americans was very low. Now that same cdc projects the u. S. Death toll will likely climb past 200,000 in the next three weeks. 200,000 people is everyone in Salt Lake City or grand rapids, michigan. The risk was and is very high. Some of the latest numbers are better, but it would be wrong to call them good. Lets look at the trend map. Nine states reporting more cases now than a week ago. Nine states orange and red. 15 states, thats the beige, steady case count, about the same this week as last week, today as last week. 26 states, majority, are going down, fewer cases today than a week ago, that includes florida, texas, arizona, california, the four states that drove the summer surge at the moment are pushing down their case count. Thats important. If you look at the case curve, here is where we were at the beginning of june, 17,000 cases a day, this is the summer surge that most Public Health experts say never should have been allowed to happen. Got as high as 77,000. Right now were down around 42,000. Thats the average right now coming to the weekend. Some drop here, but still the summer surge a lot of cases and in the wake of those cases a lot of deaths. Positivity testing right now, 27 states, the red and the orange, their testing rate above 5 . Thats what Public Health experts say you want to push down, push the testing rate, the Positivity Rate down below 5 , get it as close to zero as you can. 22 states at 5 or lower, the green on the map, pretty much all of the northeast starting to stretch across the midwest. This has been the sadder map, 20 states reporting more deaths this week than last week. That tends to lag the case count. If you look at the curve, you see the beginning of the summer, we were down here, come back up, and for the past month, for the past month essentially on average a thousand americans a day dying. Now, dr. Robert redfield head of the cdc says with the case count starting to trickle down, this should come down as well. And then hopefully this week and next week youre going to start seeing the death rate really start to drop again. We got down under 500, we got as low as 250 one day and i think were going to start to see decline in mortality across the country now next week as we continue to control these cases. With us this sunday to share their expertise, dr. Megan ranney and dr. Ashish jha. Doctors, thank you for coming in on a sunday. It is curious, the white house says there will be a big therapeutic breakthrough announced by the president tonight, the Fda Commission and secretary of health and Human Services will be with him when the president makes that announcement. It comes just a day after the president tweeted the deep state or whoever over at the fda is making it very difficult for Drug Companies to get people in order to test the vaccines and therapeutics. Obviously theyre hoping to delay at athe answer until afte november 3rd. Just yesterday the president saying the deep state was stalling something. Do we have any idea of a therapeutic that we believe is close to the finish line here . So let me get started, good morning, john. We dont know which what the announcement is going to be obviously. The one that i think many of us have been tracking very closely is convalescent plasma, thats the therapy you get from somebody who has recovered and give the plasma to somebody that we know that those have been going on in clinical trials. It is possible that we now have much clearer data on that. But we just dont know. And we would love to see this stuff nouannounced from the medl professionals, or really dr. Fauci who has been overseeing so much of the scientific progress. Well have to see what the white house comes out with later today. As we wait for that, dr. Ranney, the hard part going through the numbers, yes, the case count is starting it drop from the summer surge peak of around 77,000 or so to the 42,000, but you heard dr. Redfield and the cdc char changing its estimate, by the middle of september, 200,000 people will have died. Is there any way to reverse the number or by the middle of next month, are we essentially going to wipe Salt Lake City off the map . Theyre terrifying numbers, arent they . Theyre just so, so to look at where we are now versus where we are back in march. There is still ways for us to reverse that. It is the things that dr. Jha and i and others have been talking about, with you and with others for months now. Right now the only effective prevention that we have for this virus are those very basic Public Health measures which we have shown have worked. Things like universal mask wearing. Which can decrease the transmission of the virus from 50 and 80 , depending on the type of masks, staying outdoors as much as possible during social gatherings, not getting together indoors, trying to maintain that social distancing from people who are not part of your own household, and, of course, as dr. Jha talks about quite well, the importance of doing testing, contact tracing, setting up that whole Public Health infrastructure. If we can do those things, there have been multiple studies showing that those methods are just as effective as a full lockdown at decreasing case counts and we have seen it in states, and in countries that have put those Public Health measures in place, this is not a foregone conclusion, we can change those productions. And the test is, you mentioned testing, you mentioned masking, i love the sign behind you, thats a good way to get the message out to people there, but, look, this is data given about peoples mobility, if you go back to may, traffic to malls was down 52 , now down only 27 . Traffic to bars was down 86 , now down only 41 . If you look at airports, still pretty far down, casual dining, though, down 80 back in may, dr. Jha now down only 38 . So people are going out. People are deciding out of necessity or just their need for company to go out. The question is are they following safe procedures when they do that . Yeah, so, first of all, john, there are places in the country where it is getting safer to do those things. In the northeast, where they got that percent positive ity is lo it is safe to do that. You look across the country, the broader theme here is we have pandemic fatigue. People are getting tired of being locked down, tired of feeling like their lives have been disrupted and the main message from Public Health folks like me and dr. Ra